Forward Deployed Engineer - ANZ

present of AI; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognition seeks a customer-facing technical professional to shepherd Devin from first demo to full rollout across large engineering teams. You’ll run pilots, identify task sets for the agent, and train engineers at scale, translating complex concepts for both engineers and leaders.

The role focuses on practical deployment in an AI-enabled software development context, with emphasis on trust, relationships, and human judgment in identifying customer needs.

Qualifications

• STEM degree required.
• Experience deploying at enterprise scale in sales engineering or forward deployed roles.
• Ability to explain complex technical ideas to engineers and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Run pilots and determine tasks to hand to the autonomous agent.
• Train engineers at scale and support rollout to customer teams.

Skills

STEM degree

Enterprise deployments

Technical communication

Training engineers

Education

STEM degree

Job description

This is a customer-facing technical role that covers the whole path from first demo to rollout of Devin across large engineering teams. It asks for someone who can run pilots, find the right tasks to hand to the agent, and train engineers at scale. A strong candidate has a STEM degree, a record of enterprise deployments in sales engineering or forward deployed roles, and the ability to explain complex technical ideas to both engineers and leaders.

How it fits the AI era

The work centres on helping teams change how they build software, as an AI agent takes on tasks that engineers once did by hand. Choosing which tasks suit the agent, setting up pilots and teaching people to work with it are all part of the job. Trust, relationship building and judgement about what a customer really needs stay human.

How it builds AI experience

Working at an applied AI lab that makes an autonomous coding agent gives close, daily exposure to how large engineering teams adopt agents in practice. The role involves seeing which use cases succeed, which fail and why, and feeding that back to the product team. To build this experience beforehand, try coding agents on real projects, document what works, and practise running small demos or training sessions.

Worth showing

• Technical demos and pilots
• Customer training and enablement
• Hands-on coding ability
• Clear technical communication

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About Cognition

Applied AI lab building Devin, an autonomous software engineering agent that plans, writes, debugs, and deploys code